Just a curious question about the salary for resident

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Eh, it's a tv drama, they're all exaggerated for effect, hah.

Take criminal minds for instance, the BAU is a big deal and has a private jet and a swanky office. Hardly the case, they work in a very tiny building and don't travel via private jet. Every profession on tv is amped up for effect. Problem is, people actually believe it's reality for these jobs.

Some people seem to cast a mystical air onto doctors, as if they occupy a mysterious social stratum all by themselves. And if they're a neurosurgeon, oh, they're a flippin wizard.

Grey's Anatomy is set in Seattle. Looking at Washington University's stipend rate for Residents and R1/PGY-1 will be payed a $51,216 stipend. Other residency programs in the region would probably pay within that range.

*cough* Almost as much as waiters *cough*

 

[mvenus929]

I hope that 36 hours implies three 12 hour shifts as I cannot imagine how anyone could work for 36 hours straight.

Working 36 hours straight would get you dangerously close to a work hour violation. But, I have heard FM docs in the community picking up 24 hour ER shifts over the weekend. Rural ERs tend not to be that busy, so it's easy to sleep on your shift.

 

[drcrispmd]

No the 36 hours is one weekend at a small rural ER. I think it is 5 or 10 bed. I haven't worked there but one of the former residents did. As a third year here you are working about 40 hour weeks.

 

[fahimaz7]

What are they doing for $50/hr? That is low. Urgent care moonlighting where I'm starts $75/hr on the low end. Rural ER is $100/hr for a 36 hour shift. This is for resident moonlighting.

I can moonlight as a PGY 2 in my department for $60/hour. As a PGY3, I can moonlight at other ED's in the state for $100-200/hour.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I hope that 36 hours implies three 12 hour shifts as I cannot imagine how anyone could work for 36 hours straight.

LOLOLOLOL…ahem.

FWIW…moonlighting rates have gone up quite a bit it seems.